Naim Anwar

Review of Butternut Ski Area

Now that I've been in the area and actively ski (o...

Now that I've been in the area and actively ski (or rather snowboard) most winter weekends for the last three years, I can easily recommend Ski Butternut as a great local ski area. Their ski school is excellent; they're a Burton Learning Center, but the steal is the afternoon Saturday 7 week learning program. As of 2020, it cost only $260 for 7 week, 2 hour long group lessons on Saturday afternoons. It took me from zero to doing blues the first time I completed the multi week program. I learned to ride as an adult and didn't want to keep falling and learning on my own. It was really easy with them showing me what to do. I liked it so much I took it again (after skipping a year to practice) to learn more advanced stuff like carves and getting enough speed and control to enjoy black diamonds. Season passes are only $299 with advanced purchase. Weekday passes are as low as $25!! Keep your expectations reasonable as they're only a 1000 feet vertical drop. They're not Vale and don't pretend to be more than they are. However, they are friendly, courteous and eager to have you enjoy your time on the snow. No night skiing, they do have several lanes for snow tubing and the grooming is excellent. They have snow making on almost all their trails. Their website is well kept up with condition reports. Their lodge is reasonable and provides limited locker, food, snow gear. Close enough to NYC and CT for a day trip to enjoy the snow. Let me finish by stating that when I was the only one at the group lesson for adult Saturday program, they didn't put me in with kids or try to lump me in with people who are very different skill level. Rather, they had me one on one (probably not the most profitable solution for them) and they did what was best for me to learn. I was so impressed with my progress, I told my friends who all loved the program when they did it and we are all season pass holders.